From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 13:49:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 546B037B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 13:49:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx20a.rmci.net (mx20a.rmci.net [205.162.184.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9097843F3F for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 13:49:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from massey@rmci.net) Received: (qmail 2712 invoked from network); 15 May 2003 20:49:26 -0000 Received: from webmailc.rmci.net (HELO rmci.net) (205.162.184.94) by mx20.rmci.net with SMTP; 15 May 2003 20:49:26 -0000 Received: from 216.222.104.2 (proxying for unknown) (SquirrelMail authenticated user massey@rmci.net) by webmail.velocitus.net with HTTP; Thu, 15 May 2003 14:49:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <1453.216.222.104.2.1053031766.squirrel@webmail.velocitus.net> Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 14:49:26 -0600 (MDT) From: To: In-Reply-To: <20030515184712.GA98835@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> References: <20030515193316.45b5f781.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <2474.216.222.104.2.1053021373.squirrel@webmail.velocitus.net> <20030515184712.GA98835@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.7) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: E-mail Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: massey@rmci.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 20:49:27 -0000 Thanks! Postfix is now up and running everything :-) M;\) > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:56:13AM -0600, massey@rmci.net wrote: >> Currently I have Sendmail just sending alerts via the log files but >> not sending in/out e-mail. >> >> Can I setup Qmail or Postfix and use them for my Domain name and still >> have Sendmail do the other job?? > > No need - if you install another SMTP server package, it can just as > happily do what sendmail currently does. > >> If not how do I change the defaults to use say Qmail rather than >> Sendmail. > > A few things need to be done - > > in /etc/rc.conf, set sendmail_enable="NONE", to stop the system starting > sendmail at boot time; > > kill any sendmail processes that are still around; > > install and configure the SMTP server of your choice; > > edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf so that anything that wants to use SMTP > services gets pointed at the right binaries. See man mailwrapper for > more details about /etc/mail/mailer.conf and what it can do for you. > Be aware, though, that not all sendmail-like interfaces are equal - you > may need to tweak certain other things on the system to get the new SMTP > server to play nicely in all its guises - it's well worth the effort, > though, if like me, you find reading the sendmail config file makes you > feel your grip on reality is deserting you ;-) > > Dan > > -- > Daniel Bye > > PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc > PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC > _ > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > - against HTML, vCards and X > - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"